LONDON -- The body of a Russian exile was found Monday, eight days after an ex-Russian spy was poisoned in Britain. On Friday, police in London said it was murder, something that seems to happen a lot to Russians in the U.K.. For example, a photo shows three men together, and all three are nowÃÂ ...

Idaho officials 'humanely' euthanize snapping turtle that reportedly was fed a sick puppy by a junior high school teacher ... Because it is considered an invasive species, Idaho officials said they have "humanely" euthanized a snapping turtle that had been kept in a Preston classroom and allegedly was fed aÃÂ ...

Federal regulators said Friday that a Russian cyber attack aimed at the U.S. power grid last year did not compromise operations at any U.S. nuclear power plants. The Associated Press reported that the Nuclear Energy Commission (NRC) said corporate networks at some of the 99 U.S. power plants itÃÂ ...

Glass and Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards said officials have been working to trim the population of both the workhouse and the downtown jail in recent years, bringing it from 1,900 five and one-half years ago to 1,160 now. Officials told reporters that the tour was an effort to show transparency andÃÂ ...

Officials say a package opened at a Washington jail that hospitalized seven employees contained synthetic cannabis, not fentanyl. March 17, 2018, at 2:13 ... District of Columbia officials had said at a news conference the substance initially tested positive for the powerful opioid painkiller. But, district fireÃÂ ...

A lead engineer responsible for a pedestrian bridge that collapsed near Miami left a voicemail message for a state transportation official two days before the crash warning of "some cracking," state officials said Friday night. The engineer with the private contractor FIGG did not consider it a safety issue,ÃÂ ...

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has given his father, King Salman, a number of different explanations for her absence, say 14 current and former U.S. officials who spoke to NBC on condition of anonymity. Among the fabrications he is said to have created is that she is receiving medical treatmentÃÂ ...

"Whenever China has large-scale, top-down campaigns or initiatives, there are problems with overzealous officials and over-compliance," said Elizabeth Economy, an expert on Chinese domestic and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York who has written a book on policy under Mr.

Office of Emergency Management Director Rick Fontana talks about expected snowfall amounts during a meeting in the Emergency Operations Center in New Haven on March 12, 2018. Photo: Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media. Image 2 of 2. City officials arrive for a meeting about the upcoming snowÃÂ ...

Top Missouri officials say they have been disinvited from a roundtable with President Donald Trump this week in St. Louis. Trump will make his third trip to Missouri in less than a year Wednesday when he holds an economic roundtable at Boeing's facility in St. Louis and then participates in a fundraiser forÃÂ ...

Preliminary information from an interview with Richard Vance, the pilot of the red Eurocopter AS350, suggests a passenger's harness somehow got wrapped around the fuel shut-off switch, accidentally cutting off the fuel supply to the helicopter and resulting in engine failure, multiple officials briefed on theÃÂ ...

Donald Trump Jr. has a previously undisclosed business relationship with a longtime hunting buddy who helped raise millions of dollars for his father's 2016 presidential campaign and has had special access to top government officials since the election, records obtained by The Associated Press show.

(CNN) White House officials were alarmed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' struggle to answer basic questions about the nation's schools and failure to defend the administration's newly proposed school safety measures during a tour of television interviews Sunday and Monday, according to twoÃÂ ...

After voters in the 15 largest counties in Texas smashed the record for early voting in a non-presidential year by nearly 50 percent, political parties and election officials in Harris County are getting ready for potentially huge crowds Tuesday and aiming to avoid a repeat of the long lines and equipmentÃÂ ...

On Tuesday, Indian officials conducted raids at residences of the Guptas in the town of Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh and the nearby town of Dehradun, as well as one of their offices in the capital, New Delhi, Kumar said. A top judge in South Africa will investigate whether the Guptas sought to influence theÃÂ ...

North and South Korea have agreed to hold their first summit in more than a decade in late April, the South's presidential office said on Tuesday, according to media reports. The announcement comes after a senior delegation from South Korea met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang onÃÂ ...

LOWVILLE -- While delays have continued to beset Lewis County's solar project, county officials can now see a spark at the end of the tunnel with completion expected by the end of the month. "We're looking forward to a completed project," County Manager Ryan M. Piche said. "Then we can start realizingÃÂ ...

Amazon officials toured sites in Montgomery County, Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., last week, which local officials suggest is a sign that the tech giant is seriously considering the region for its second headquarters. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said he had breakfast with Amazon officials lastÃÂ ...

When private donors raised $1.8 million to build what is now known as Richard "Itchy" Jones Stadium, former SIUC Chancellor Rita Cheng offered to match it with a loan from the university. Jones Stadium opened in 2014. To help pay off that loan, and battle a $4 million-plus deficit, university officials are inÃÂ ...

The development came after President Klaus Iohannis wrote to the court in January, alerting it to the legislation which he said "diminished the standards of integrity" expected of officials and undermined the rule of law. Iohannis evoked a European Union report that urged Romania to ensure that officialsÃÂ ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met senior South Korean government officials for the first time and said it is his "firm will to vigorously advance" inter-Korean ties and pursue reunification, the North's official news agency said on Tuesday. A 10-member South Korean delegation led by National SecurityÃÂ ...

There are multiple regulations in place to prevent family members of government officials from benefiting from public office. Under the employee standards of conduct of the Office of government Ethics, government employees are banned from "using public office for their own private gain for the private gainÃÂ ...

Officials put out a request for proposal in early February that would ask a consultant to look at past proposals, including extending the No. 7 subway line to Secaucus Junction station. A consultant would make recommendations 18 months after being selected to the Port Authority of New York and NewÃÂ ...

Despite rumors of problems with the new MHS Genesis system, officials involved with the five-year plan to field the new records system insist the work remains on track for full service-wide use by 2022. They say the list of would-be fixes from users are all part of the pre-planned troubleshooting of the overallÃÂ ...

Christopher Lapinig, at podium, an attorney at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles, is among lawyers for Vietnamese immigrants suing the federal government over their detention by U.S. immigration authorities, at a news conference in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.

Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience, according to current and former U.S.ÃÂ ...

Eleven former Interior Department officials with decades of experience in both Washington and in local offices told The Associated Press the agency already has a well-established system for decentralized decisionmaking. "Ninety percent-plus of the decisions that get made get made at the local level," saidÃÂ ...

Chicago aldermen on Friday moved to expand a recently enacted ban on sexual harassment, so more potential victims would have recourse if city officials attempt to trade sexual favors for government decisions or employment. The change advanced by the City Council Workforce Development and AuditÃÂ ...

Even where weapons haven't been found, fears have mounted over rumors that school and law enforcement officials say aren't founded. Officials throughout the region say they've heard from worried parents and teachers this week who want to know: Are schools equipped to protect students and staff?

(CNN) The employer of a Filipino domestic worker, whose battered body was found in a freezer in an apartment in Kuwait City, has been arrested, Philippine officials said. Nader Essam Assaf, a Lebanese national, is in custody in Lebanon, according to a statement from The Philippines Department ofÃÂ ...

Two more high-ranking officials at the Massachusetts State Police retired suddenly Friday, in the latest fallout from the controversy over how the police handled the October arrest of a judge's daughter. Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Risteen, the third in command at the state police, and Major Susan Anderson,ÃÂ ...

A report on Friday by investigators from the UN Commission on human rights in South Sudan said the officials - including military generals and state governors - may be responsible for the rape and murder of civilians and recruitment of childsoldiers. The officials were not named in the report. "childrenÃÂ ...

As a broad generalization, most of these officials relate some version of what Shadow government's Colin Kahl has termed, aptly, the 80/20 rule. They are cautiously encouraged by the fact that perhaps 80 percent of U.S. policy appears to be proceeding more or less normally. NATO's enhanced forwardÃÂ ...

Editor's Note: This is the second in a series examining opioid prescriptions and abuse in Sebastian County. Sebastian County officials say a number of local social issues are worsened by opioid abuse. In the latest available data, Sebastian County was near the top of Arkansas for several opioid-relatedÃÂ ...

Update: The shelter alert ended at 11:47 p.m. and Cleveland State officials say the campus is safe. Cleveland, Ohio -- Cleveland State University has asked students to shelter in place, according to an alert from the university. CSU officials are following up on an off-campus unrelated incident and areÃÂ ...

The planning for President Trump's military parade may be in its infancy, but already lawmakers and local officials are stepping in to try to put the brakes on the idea. the White House and Pentagon confirmed reports this week that Trump is mulling over a large military parade designed to showcase theÃÂ ...

US officials paid a shady Russian $100,000 last year to re-acquire stolen NSA cyberweapons. But instead of delivering the hacking tools, the Russian provided unverified and dubious dirt on President Donald Trump. American spies tried to recover the cyberweapons during several meetings. But each time the RussianÃÂ ...

Two police officers in a city near Columbus, Ohio, were shot and killed Saturday while responding to a 911 hangup call involving potential domestic abuse, the authorities said. Chief Joe Morbitzer of the Westerville police Department said the officers, Eric Joering, 39, and Anthony Morelli, 54, hadÃÂ ...

These officials said that while Pence did not greet Kim Yong Nam, he didn't deliberately skip over him. Instead, they said, Kim simply wasn't seated in the area where Pence was receiving well-wishers. The officials said it was fair to say both Pence and the North Koreans rebuffed South Korean presidentÃÂ ...

Washington (CNN) Thirty to 40 White House officials and administration political appointees are still operating without full security clearances, including senior adviser to President Donald Trump Jared Kushner and -- until recently -- White House staffer Rob Porter, according to a US official and a sourceÃÂ ...

VERNON -- After sounding the alarm last week about a lack of hot water at Legends Resort & Country Club that has since been restored, township officials now maintain that reports of a bat infestation at the facility were premature and unfounded, and that their job is therefore done. The reports of anÃÂ ...

Anchorage, Alaska -- Alaska's all-Republican congressional delegation three weeks ago praised Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke after he announced nearly all federal waters off the state's coast could be offered for oil and gas drilling. A delegation requested that most Alaska waters from the state'sÃÂ ...